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1184063	2011-03-07 07:15:00	I would like to point out this is a pretty average "thin & light" Dell computer that is around 7-8 years old compreviews.about.com Probably reached its use by date, and is probably not worth investing a lot of resources in. Even if you fix this problem, I would not count on not seeing back soon.	PPp (9511)
1184064	2011-03-07 07:27:00	I would like to point out this is a pretty average "thin & light" Dell computer that is around 7-8 years old compreviews.about.com Probably reached its use by date, and is probably not worth investing a lot of resources in. Even if you fix this problem, I would not count on not seeing back soon. you are right, but it is their only computer and up till now its done the job, and if the only problem is faulty ram, then there is no reason to ditch it yet. In fact I could do with one myself! Memtest is up to pass 3 (passes seem to take longer)	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184065	2011-03-08 03:35:00	Had to turn off memtest at pass 6, as didn't want to leave it on overnight. on the hdd front Just ran scandisk to check harddrive,took a good amount of time now it ran and was working away, next thing I know i hear the sound of windows welcome music. Is that a good sign? whenever i have run scandisk before, its always told me how many errors it found in a report, but this time it just seems to have gone straight into windows, its been awhile but i was sure there used to be a summary screen? Can't make the bsod reappear and can't work out what caused it	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184066	2011-03-08 03:43:00	aha foundd it Event Type: Information Event Source: Winlogon Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 8/03/2011 Time: 3:42:57 p.m. User: N/A Computer: BOBAHOME Description: Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive. Cleaning up 42 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 42 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 42 unused security descriptors. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... File data verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... Free space verification is complete. Adding 12992 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File. Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 39070048 KB total disk space. 2746492 KB in 17824 files. 4544 KB in 838 indexes. 51968 KB in bad sectors. 87116 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 36179928 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 9767512 total allocation units on disk. 9044982 allocation units available on disk. Internal Info: ad 4d 00 00 f1 48 00 00 97 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 .M...H...Q...... 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 F.......%....... 60 4d 7d 00 00 00 00 00 20 df e0 0b 00 00 00 00 `M}..... ....... c0 27 e2 00 00 00 00 00 60 a9 b3 7f 00 00 00 00 .'......`....... a0 e4 72 4e 07 00 00 00 f0 1f 00 e3 07 00 00 00 ..rN............ 99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 07 00 a0 45 00 00 ..6......9...E.. 00 00 00 00 00 f0 a1 a7 00 00 00 00 46 03 00 00 ............F... Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts. For more information, see Help and Support Center at go.microsoft.com Means hard drive is poked or okayish to use.	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184067	2011-03-08 03:49:00	The BSOD should be in the event log too...	Agent_24 (57)
1184068	2011-03-08 04:45:00	The BSOD should be in the event log too... What exactly should i look for as there are bucket loads of entries, as i had been doing a tonne of driver installs and updates, and i am not sure of the exact time the error happened, is likely to be the last event for that usage period, as it was something like wuaueng.dll suse clientdatastore database has stopped. hold on will look it up again,	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184069	2011-03-08 04:49:00	And another thing, where would i get a replacement drive, I am assuming any 2.5in IDE drive should be fine. But pricespy is a nightmare, every second drive seems to be refurbished, the user is happy with the current 40 gb size, but i think 80gb min would be better as they want to start storing photos on it, (and their kids are playing games on it).	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184070	2011-03-08 04:54:00	Why do you think there's something wrong with the drive? Not all the drives are refurbished, often just the shops with the cheapest price for that specific drive.	Agent_24 (57)
1184071	2011-03-08 05:21:00	Why do you think there's something wrong with the drive? Is that not what bad sectors mean?	Morgenmuffel (187)
1184072	2011-03-08 05:24:00	Post#24 - the log file - Adding 12992 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File. That is not a good sign. The best option is to go to the HDD's manufactures site, they will usually have free software to test drives - that will tell you if the drive is faulty. Also the Drives smart logs can usually show faults on serious failures, or pending failure. Assuming the drive is faulty with dead sectors, data in those sectors will be lost, the lose of this data, or system files can also cause BSOD, which is why the RAM shows as being OK. A BSOD is only caused by two things - hardware or software corruption/Bad Drivers. the user is happy with the current 40 gb size, but i think 80gb min would be better as they want to start storing photos on it, (and their kids are playing games on it). If you replace the Drive you may not have a choice. 40GB drives have been gone for some time now, the lowest is usually 80GB.	wainuitech (129)
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